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Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
	Royal Bournemouth Hospital
	Shown in Dorset
Geography
Location	Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Coordinates	50°44′52.4″N 1°49′18.71″W / 50.747889°N 1.8218639°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	723
History
Opened	1989
Links
Website	www.uhd.nhs.uk/hospitals-bournemouth
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Royal Bournemouth Hospital is an acute general hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is managed by the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital was managed by The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust until the merger with Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2020.

Location

The hospital is located a short distance from the Wessex Way (A338) in Castle Lane East (A3060) in Bournemouth. It is served by bus routes operated by Wilts & Dorset. Bournemouth railway station is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the hospital.^[2]

History

The first phase of the hospital, which replaced the Royal Victoria Hospital,^[a] opened in 1989.^[4] A second phase of the hospital was opened by Princess Anne in 1992.^[4] A Cardiac Intervention Unit was opened in April 2005 and the Derwent Hospital, a 28-bed unit previously operated as a private hospital, was purchased in 2007.^[4]^[5]

Various acute services were transferred from Christchurch Hospital to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2010.^[6]

On 3 November 2021, a ceremony was carried out to mark the start of construction work on building a new wing. The project is part of a £250 million reorganisation of healthcare in Dorset.^[7]

On 6 May 2022, Charles, Prince of Wales opened a lavender garden at the hospital dedicated to hospital staff who died during the Covid-19 pandemic.^[8]

Services

It has a 24-hour accident & emergency department.^[9] It also provides district-wide services for vascular surgery and urology. Outpatient clinics are provided for oral surgery, paediatrics, plastic surgery, ENT (ears, nose and throat), cardiothoracic and neurology.^[10]

It is also the home to a diabetic unit called BDEC, which treats and educates local patients diagnosed with the disease.^[11]

Performance

The independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), rated the Royal Bournemouth Hospital as "Good" overall in March 2018.^[12] The findings of the report are summarised in the table below:

	Safe	Effective	Caring	Responsive	Well-led	Overall
Urgent and emergency services	Good	Good	Good	Good	Outstanding	Good
Medical care	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good
Surgery	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good
Critical care	Good	Good	Good	Requires improvement	Good	Good
Maternity and gynaecology	Good	Good	Good	Good	Outstanding	Good
Services for children and young people	Good	Good	Outstanding	Good	Good	Good
End of life care	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good
Outpatients and diagnostic imaging	Good	Not rated	Good	Good	Good	Good
'Overall'	Good	Good	Good	Good	Outstanding	Good

Porters

A 12-minute film entitled Porters made by students from Newport Film School at the hospital in 2015, told the story of the hospital's porters. It won a number of awards and was added to the British Film Institute's national archives.^[13]

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Notes

^ Sixteen of the original W. B. Simpson tile panels from the Royal Victoria Hospital may be found, mounted on the stairs of the hospital. The panels, which date from 1910, show nursery rhymes and fairy tales.^[3]